Flaneuring on wheels
People keep asking, What charity are you doing it for? Even Shane said, We should do it for charity. The other thing people say is, You should apply for a grant. Even Shane said, We could do some writing, make it a project. All I wanted to do was ride…
What colour is your bike, and was the choice about style or politics? I’ve just got back from Gandia where, as those of you who have read the Peloton section will know, there was once a great free bike scheme called Labici, which made a small civilised place bigger and…
It’s 108.7 miles from Hull to Wigan. I just checked the AA route guide. Back in 1978 my friend Bri (Briyyy) cycled this route aged 14. He wanted to dance at Wigan Casino. We all did, but he was the first one out of the gang to make it. The…
This afternoon I went for my Otley Back Road ride, a ten miler not yet leafy but promising to be so. I was thinking about Bradford MP and friend of lycra, Gorgeous George Galloway. The day the Yorkshire route for the Tour de France was announced I responded to a…
For years Shane has been telling me I must try the Bavarian Ham Hock in Gandia’s Bar Sacramento. Each time I’ve been there, each time we’ve been there, the Polish owner Robert sadly tells us he doesn’t have any in prepared so I, or we, have hamburgers, very good hamburgers…
Our first planning meeting in Distrikt took place on 17th of January, an important date for another reason; something that had sounded completely crazy became concrete … or tarmac. For a couple of years, Gary Verity and what some people thought of as his spectacularly deluded Welcome to Yorkshire team,…
For years I have been idly toying with the idea of cycling from my back door near Ilkley to my Dad’s back door south of Manchester. It would be a slow version of part of a journey I have made all my life by trains and car – from home…